If you have the benefit of living in England, perhaps you read yesterday's account of the single most vile, disgusting, call to American racial violence in recent memory. Sadly, if you lived here in America – you didn’t. Stateside, only Tucker Carlson’s braveDaily Caller and the Washington Times thought that author and Medal of Freedom honoree Toni Morrison’s call for the systematic slaughter of white teenagers was worthy of mention.

As a fourth generation Californian who lived through the first Jerry Brown administration -- or as I like to call it, the tunnel-boat scene from Willy Wonka -- back in the ‘70s, I always considered a Jerry Brown governorship to be like the chicken pox. It's horrible, you have to suffer though it, it leaves scars, but the good news is that you can never get it again. Then a friend reminded me that chicken pox can lie dormant for years, coming back as its more virulent, painful, adult cousin: The shingles.